Language name and locationː Eyak,  Cordova, Alaska, USA [Refer to Ethnologue]
语言名称和分布地区: 埃亚克语, 美国阿拉斯加州南部科尔多瓦地区

1. LinhG-ih

2. la̕d-ih

3. t̕uhLga’

4. qAlahqa̕ga̕

5. ch̕a:n̕-ih

6. tsi̕i:n

7. la’dits̕i:n    

8. q̕adits̕i:n

9. guts’de:

10. dAGa:q̕

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Mark Rosenfelder, The Author of the website "Numbers from 1 to 10 in over 5000 languages", Chicago, USA, October 7 2023.

提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Mark Rosenfelder, 2023 年 10 月 7 日.

Other comments: Eyak was spoken by the Eyak people, indigenous to south-central Alaska, near the mouth of the Copper River. The name Eyak comes from a Chugach Sugpiaq name (Igya'aq) for an Eyak village at the mouth of the Eyak River. The closest relatives of Eyak are the Athabaskan languages. The Eyak–Athabaskan group forms a basic division of the Na-Dené language family, the other being Tlingit.
Numerous Tlingit place names along the Gulf Coast are derived from names in Eyak; they have obscure or even nonsensical meanings in Tlingit, but oral tradition has maintained many Eyak etymologies. The existence of Eyak-derived Tlingit names along most of the coast towards southeast Alaska is strong evidence that the prehistoric range of Eyak was once far greater than it was at the time of European contact. This confirms both Tlingit and Eyak oral histories of migration throughout the region.
Current status and revival
The last surviving native speaker was Marie Smith Jones (May 14, 1918 – January 21, 2008) of Cordova.

Eyak has only recorded traditional numerals from 1 to 10 years ago. New data for numbers after ten is required. 

Phonology

The following charts are based on the material in Krauss (1965); IPA equivalents are shown in square brackets. The orthography used by Krauss is also used by the Eyak people. An alternative version uses < ə ł x̣ g̣ > instead of < A L X G > for /ə ɬ χ q/, and < j č š c cʼ > instead of < dj ch sh ts tsʼ > for / t͡ʃ t͡ʃʱ ʃ t͡s t͡sʼ/ respectively.

Vowels[edit]

Eyak has five vowel qualities /ɪ e a ə ʊ/, three of which also distinguish duration, nasalization, creaky voice (i.e. glottalization), and breathy voice (‘aspiration’ in Krauss's terminology). The vowel /ə/ only occurs as short and in modal voice, without nasalization. /a/ can also vary between [a] or [ɔ], and /e/ can vary between [e], [ɛ], or [æ]. Breathy voice vowels are all short /ɪ̤ e̤ a̤ ʊ̤/, although most of them can also be nasalized /ɪ̤̃ ã̤ ʊ̤̃/.

	Front		Central		Back
	Oral	Nasal	Oral	Nasal	Oral	Nasal
Close	ɪ ɪː ɪ̰ ɪ̰ː ɪ̤	ɪ̃ ɪ̃ː ɪ̰̃ ɪ̰̃ː ɪ̤̃			ʊ ʊː ʊ̰ ʊ̰ː ʊ̤	ʊ̃ ʊ̃ː ʊ̰̃ ʊ̰̃ː ʊ̤̃
Mid	eː ḛ ḛː e̤		ə
Open			aː a̰ a̰ː a̤	ã ãː ã̰ ã̰ː

Writing vowels in Eyak

In the system developed to represent Eyak in writing, long vowels are represented by characters following the basic vowel: a colon <:> for long vowels, an apostrophe < ’> for glottalized (or creaky voice) vowels, an <h> for breathy voiced (“aspirated”) vowels and an <n> for nasalized vowels.